I was lucky to have access to THINK Pascal and later Metrowerks CodeWarrior, and adults who would answer programming questions or tell me how pointers work. I

I was lucky to have access to THINK Pascal and later Metrowerks CodeWarrior, and adults who would answer programming questions or tell me how pointers work. I don't remember the Inside Macintosh books being especially large and heavy; they were broken into volumes which were a half-inch or inch thick, except for volume VI. It wasn't terribly long before these books ended up online on Apple's developer website but I don't remember when that happened.